The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-06-02

ANDERSON, S. c., :
been passing up and down these streets
much. There is more rum swallowed in
this country, and of worse kind, than
was ever swallowed since the first distil.
lery began its work of death. Where
there was one drunken home there are
ten drunken homes. Where there was
one drunkard's grave there are twenty
drunkards' graves.
According to United States govern.
ment figures, in 1910 there were
100000 gallons of beer sold; last year
there were 55l 100000 gallons. Accord.
ing to the governmental figures, in the
year 1910 there wero 100000 gallons Of
wine sold; last year there were
| 25,OOO,00O gallons of wine. It is on the
increase. Talk about crooked whiskey-
by which men mean the whiskey that
does not pay the tax to government
tell you all strong drink is crooked.
Crooked Otard, crooked Cognac, crooked
schnapps, crooked beer, crooked wine,
crooked whiskey-because it makes a
mans path crooked, aud his life crooked,
and his death crooked, and his eternity
crooked. >,
III could gather all the armies Of the
dead drunkards and have them come to
resurrection, and then add to that host
all the
ARMIES OF LIVING DRUNKARps,
FIVE and ten abreast, and then if I could
have you mount horse and ride along
that liae for review, you would ride that
horse until he dropped from exhaustion,
and you would mount another horse aud
ride until he fell from exhaustion, and
you would take another and another, and
you would ride along hour after hour,
and day after Gay. Great host, in regi-
ment, iu brigadea. Great armies of
them. And then if you had voice stem.
torian enough to make them all hear,
and you could give the command,
aaForward, march !" their first tramp
would make the earth tremble. l do not
care which way you look in the commu.
nifty to-day, the evil is increasing.
/ call attention to the fact that there
are thousands of people born with a
thirst for strong drink-a fact too often
ignored. Along some ancestral lines
runs the river of temptation. There are
children whose swaddling:clothes are
torn off the shroud of death.
THE DRUNKARD's WILL.
Many father has made a will of this
sort: "In the name of God, amen. I
beqneath to my children my houses and
lands and estates; share and share shall
they alike. Hereto I adix my hand and
seal in the presence of witnesses" And
yet perhaps that very man has made
another will that the people have never
read ,and that has not been provided in
the courts. That will put in writing
would read something like this: In the
name of disease and appetite and death,
| amen. I bequeath 10 my children my
evil habits, my tankards shall be theirs,
my wine.cup shall be theirs, my
destroyed reputation shall be theirs.
Share and share alike shall they in the
infamy. Hereto I afix my hand and
seal in the presence of all the applauding
harpies of hell.'
From the multitude of those who have
the evil habit born with them this army
is being augmented. And I am sorry to
say that great many of the drug-stores
are abetting this evil, and alcohol is sold
under the name of
BITTERS.
It is bitters for this, and bitters for
that, and for some other thing, and good
men deceived, not knowing there is any
thraldom of alcoholism coming from that
source, are going down, and some day a
man sits with the bottle of black bitters
on his table, and the cork flies out, and
| after it flies. 6end and clutches the
man by his throat and says: "Aha I
have been after you for ten years. I
have got you now. Down with you,
down with you !" Bitters All! yes.
They make mans family bitter, and
his home bitter, and his disposition
bitter, and his death bitter, and his hell
bitter. Bitters A vast army, all the
time increasing. And let me also say
that it is as thoroughly organized IS any
army, with rcommander.in. chief, staff
officers, infantry, cavalry, batteries,
sutlerships, and flaming ensigns, and
that every candidate for Office in America
will yet have to pronounce himself the
friend or foe of the liquor:trattic.
have in my possession circular of a
brewers association, circular sent to
all candidates for office; it has been
sent, or will be sent-a form to be filled
up saying whether the candidate is a
friend of the liquor-trafic or its enemy ;
and if he is an enemy Of the business,
! then the man is doomed; or if be
declines to fill up the circular and send
it back, his silence is taken as negative
answer.
/ It seems to me it is about time for the
I17,0O0,000 professors of religion in
America to
TAKE SIDES.
1t is going to be an out.and out battle
between drunkenness and sobriety,
between heaven and hell, between God
and the devil. Take sides before there
is any further national decadence, take
| siden before voi,r aops are sacrificed and